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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[640K ought to be enough for anybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9576]]></link><description><![CDATA[640K ought to be enough for anybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and human stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9577]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and human stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9554]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork. - When Things Start to Think, 1999.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is useless to send armies against ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9555]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is useless to send armies against ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9557]]></link><description><![CDATA[I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas are fatal to caste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas are fatal to caste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9561]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9562]]></link><description><![CDATA[... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9563]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea at first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did in order to get to do the work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9567]]></link><description><![CDATA[As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know you've achieved perfection in design, Not when you have nothing more to add,But when you have nothing more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9568]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know you've achieved perfection in design, Not when you have nothing more to add,But when you have nothing more to take away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9569]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9570]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9571]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking is the hardest work there is. Which is the probable reason why so few engage in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking is the hardest work there is. Which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9573]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobodyappreciates how difficult it was. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9574]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobodyappreciates how difficult it was.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are governed not by armies, but by ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9540]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9542]]></link><description><![CDATA[The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innovators are inevitably controversial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innovators are inevitably controversial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[INNOVATION is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9545]]></link><description><![CDATA[INNOVATION is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9546]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If unix is the face of the future I wanna go back to quill pens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9548]]></link><description><![CDATA[If unix is the face of the future I wanna go back to quill pens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique added to the armamentarium ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares, assess randomization, statistical significance, and standard deviations is less than illiterate; he is preconscious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9550]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9551]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan. - "Time", July 2, 1956.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9553]]></link><description><![CDATA[One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty. - The Zykovs, 1914.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9531]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Touch a scientist and you touch a child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Touch a scientist and you touch a child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9534]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9536]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9537]]></link><description><![CDATA[The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9538]]></link><description><![CDATA[It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9539]]></link><description><![CDATA[...there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. But the difference is that once you've made the intuitive leap you have to justify it by filling in the intermediate steps. In my case, it often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find that they don't work, so I have to give it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FORTRAN --'the infantile disorder'--, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9523]]></link><description><![CDATA[FORTRAN --'the infantile disorder'--, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.PL/I --'the fatal disease'-- belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9524]]></link><description><![CDATA[About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9524</guid></item></channel></rss>